Sentence examples for historic forebears from inspiring English sources

Our architects are among the best in the world and it's absolutely right that their finest work is afforded the same protection as their historic forebears.

Its joint sponsors are the city of Rome and a private foundation, and they say that the open-air performance space, expected to accommodate nearly 1,400 people and to be used during all but the coldest span of the year, will be architecturally faithful to its historic forebear.

"We may be saying different prayers, but our eyes are turned toward the same sky and toward the same vision for the Middle East," he told an audience that included both the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Turkish one, Abdullah Gul.For Turkey, this was an historic moment, a chance to reclaim the muscle of its Ottoman forebears as a force in the Middle East.

Ms. Boone, who runs a historic preservation fund in Durham, has studied records indicating that her forebear kept his slaves' families together, fed and clothed them well and trained them as woodworkers and bill collectors.

Unlike their countercultural forebears, Ms. Ray and Ms. Saliers don't see themselves as part of a historic wave; even as they work within the corporate music industry, they maintain a position of relative independence.

Tells about his forebears.

They were clearly our own cultural forebears.

Our forebears are buried in that cemetery".

I have some forebears there".

Our forebears faced much worse.

You can choose your forebears.